Country Flag Color Meanings

A flag in simple words is a symbolic representation of ones country. Every flag belonging to a country has a history meaning associated. Read on to know more about meaning of flags of different countries like America, Australia, German, Indian etc.

The motive behind discovering a flag was for the purpose of passing signals/gestures and for identification of a troop. In wars, flags were used to convey messages to the opposition party i.e., of making peace, surrendering or charging for a fight etc.

National flags have a wide variance of colors and their combinations. There lies some cause behind the selection of the colors, the design (stripes, crosses and bands) and the symbols (star, sun, crescent etc) embedded in the flag. There might be some false stories as well created on the history of some flags. It is difficult to say how much the truth in these stories is since these things do not have much relevance in today's context.

Country Flag Color Combinations

It may be noted that region-wise, there are similarities in color combinations used by some nations.

Red, White and Blue are common between a few countries in the European nations like Croatia, Czech Republic, France, Netherlands, Serbia, UK and Slovenia etc.

Some African countries like Cameron, Congo, Guinea, Benin, Ghana, Mali and Niger etc have a common combination of green, red and yellow.

Some Arab nations like Palestine, Jordon, Kuwait, UAE and Syria etc have common combination of red, white, green and black.

There is a similarity in the design of the flags of Sweden, Denmark and Iceland who represent the Nordic countries. These countries also are known to have comparable cultural qualities.

The sun, star and crescent are common symbols seen among the nations in the Asian continent.

Every color symbolizes some characteristics, as we can see with the following examples of some common colors:

Black: the color symbolizes a purpose for some countries, for some it is victory over the oppositions or for some it represents cultural inheritance.